Inspector Singh is back, but this time on secondment to Bali. A bomb has exploded and Singh has been sent to help with anti-terrorism efforts. But there's a slight problem: he knows squat about hunting terrorists. He's much better suited to solving murder! So when a body is discovered in the wreckage, killed by a bullet before the bomb went off, Singh should be the one to find the answers - especially with the help of a wily Australian copper by his side.

3 out of 5 stars

Good story, good narrator, dreadful Aussie accents

By
Raccy
on
21-09-11

A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder

Inspector Singh Investigates, Book 1

By:
Shamini Flint

Narrated by:
Jonathan Keeble

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
56

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
42

Story

4 out of 5 stars
42

Inspector Singh is in a bad mood. He's been sent from his home in Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to solve a murder that has him stumped. Chelsea Liew - the famous Singaporean model - is on death row for the murder of her ex-husband. She swears she didn't do it, he thinks she didn't do it, but no matter how hard he tries to get to the bottom of things, he still arrives back at the same place - that Chelsea's husband was shot at point blank range, and that Chelsea had the best motivation to pull the trigger:

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

By
Polly Pon
on
20-02-15

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Baby Ganesh Detective Agency, Book 1

By:
Vaseem Khan

Narrated by:
Sartaj Garewal

Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
123

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
116

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
117

Mumbai, murder and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful mystery for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and Harold Fry. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant.

5 out of 5 stars

Unexpected storyline😀

By
Scott forsyth
on
02-10-15

The Case of the Missing Servant

By:
Tarquin Hall

Narrated by:
Sam Dastor

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
73

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
59

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
59

Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India’s swindlers, cheats and murderers.In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests

4 out of 5 stars

Charming

By
L
on
11-03-15

A Rising Man

By:
Abir Mukherjee

Narrated by:
Simon Bubb

Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
490

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
450

Story

4 out of 5 stars
447

Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. But with barely a moment to acclimatise to his new life or to deal with the ghosts which still haunt him, Wyndham is caught up in a murder investigation that will take him into the dark underbelly of the British Raj.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent! Worthy of Rankin

By
Arthur
on
21-05-16

Pietr the Latvian

Inspector Maigret, Book 1

By:
Georges Simenon,
David Bellos (translator)

Narrated by:
Gareth Armstrong

Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
137

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
124

Story

4 out of 5 stars
121

The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.

4 out of 5 stars

Easy Reading of a classic cop

By
Viv
on
28-01-14

A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul

Inspector Singh Investigates Series: Book 2

By:
Shamini Flint

Narrated by:
Jonathan Keeble

Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
25

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
24

Inspector Singh is back, but this time on secondment to Bali. A bomb has exploded and Singh has been sent to help with anti-terrorism efforts. But there's a slight problem: he knows squat about hunting terrorists. He's much better suited to solving murder! So when a body is discovered in the wreckage, killed by a bullet before the bomb went off, Singh should be the one to find the answers - especially with the help of a wily Australian copper by his side.

3 out of 5 stars

Good story, good narrator, dreadful Aussie accents

By
Raccy
on
21-09-11

A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder

Inspector Singh Investigates, Book 1

By:
Shamini Flint

Narrated by:
Jonathan Keeble

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
56

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
42

Story

4 out of 5 stars
42

Inspector Singh is in a bad mood. He's been sent from his home in Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to solve a murder that has him stumped. Chelsea Liew - the famous Singaporean model - is on death row for the murder of her ex-husband. She swears she didn't do it, he thinks she didn't do it, but no matter how hard he tries to get to the bottom of things, he still arrives back at the same place - that Chelsea's husband was shot at point blank range, and that Chelsea had the best motivation to pull the trigger:

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

By
Polly Pon
on
20-02-15

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Baby Ganesh Detective Agency, Book 1

By:
Vaseem Khan

Narrated by:
Sartaj Garewal

Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
123

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
116

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
117

Mumbai, murder and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful mystery for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and Harold Fry. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant.

5 out of 5 stars

Unexpected storyline😀

By
Scott forsyth
on
02-10-15

The Case of the Missing Servant

By:
Tarquin Hall

Narrated by:
Sam Dastor

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
73

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
59

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
59

Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India’s swindlers, cheats and murderers.In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests

4 out of 5 stars

Charming

By
L
on
11-03-15

A Rising Man

By:
Abir Mukherjee

Narrated by:
Simon Bubb

Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
490

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
450

Story

4 out of 5 stars
447

Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. But with barely a moment to acclimatise to his new life or to deal with the ghosts which still haunt him, Wyndham is caught up in a murder investigation that will take him into the dark underbelly of the British Raj.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent! Worthy of Rankin

By
Arthur
on
21-05-16

Pietr the Latvian

Inspector Maigret, Book 1

By:
Georges Simenon,
David Bellos (translator)

Narrated by:
Gareth Armstrong

Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
137

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
124

Story

4 out of 5 stars
121

The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.

4 out of 5 stars

Easy Reading of a classic cop

By
Viv
on
28-01-14

The Mangle Street Murders

By:
M. R. C. Kasasian

Narrated by:
Emma Gregory

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,374

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,265

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,255

Gower Street, London, 1882: Sidney Grice, London's most famous personal detective, is expecting a visitor. He drains his fifth pot of morning tea, and glances outside, where a young, plain woman picks her way between the piles of horse-dung towards his front door. Sidney Grice shudders. For heaven's sake - she is wearing brown shoes. The Mangle Street Murders is for those who like their crime original, atmospheric, and very, very funny.

3 out of 5 stars

Not Quite My Pot of Tea

By
Simon
on
06-02-16

The Riviera Express

A Miss Dimont Mystery, Book 1

By:
TP Fielden

Narrated by:
Eve Karpf

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
98

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
83

Story

4 out of 5 stars
83

Gerald Hennessey - silver-screen star and much-loved heartthrob - never quite makes it to Temple Regis, the quaint Devonshire seaside town on the English Riviera. Murdered on the 4.30 from Paddington, the loss of this great man throws Temple Regis' community into disarray. Not least Miss Judy Dimont, corkscrew-haired reporter for the local rag,
The Riviera Express. Investigating Gerald's death, she's quickly called to the scene of a second murder.

3 out of 5 stars

Slow and repetitive

By
Deborah
on
10-10-17

P. D. James BBC Radio Drama Collection

Seven Full-Cast Dramatisations

By:
P. D. James

Narrated by:
Greta Scacchi,
Hugh Grant,
full cast,
and others

Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
146

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
130

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
131

Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus
P. D. James in Her Own Words. This collection includes:
Cover Her Face,
A Taste for Death,
Devices and Desires,
A Certain Justice,
The Private Patient,
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and
The Skull Beneath the Skin.

5 out of 5 stars

Happy all 7 dramatisations are in one collection

By
M. K.
on
19-02-18

Written in Dead Wax

The Vinyl Detective, Book 1

By:
Andrew Cartmel

Narrated by:
Ben Allen

Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
370

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
356

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
357

He is a record collector and a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective, and some people take this more literally than others. For example, the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy yet shadowy client. And so begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all....

5 out of 5 stars

BRILLIANT

By
Viv
on
07-11-16

Slow Horses

Slough House, Book 1

By:
Mick Herron

Narrated by:
Sean Barrett

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
622

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
580

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
577

Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who’ve screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They’re the service’s poor relations – the slow horses – and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations.

5 out of 5 stars

Intelligence, wit and great plot

By
Kevin
on
06-11-10

Full Dark House

By:
Christopher Fowler

Narrated by:
Tim Goodman

Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
290

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
249

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
244

In
Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler tells the story of both the first and last case of an unlikely pair of crime fighters - and how along the way they changed the face of detection. A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of 80-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half a century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues, May finds his friend’s notes of their first case....

4 out of 5 stars

Where it all begins?

By
Russ
on
09-07-12

Inspector Ghote's First Case

By:
H. R. F. Keating

Narrated by:
Sam Dastor

Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Newly promoted Inspector Ghote is thrilled to be granted casual leave until he takes up his post, as it allows him to spend time with his heavily pregnant wife, who is desperate to watch a showing of Hamlet at the cinema. Their plans are ruined, however, since Sir Rustom Engineer requires Ghote to investigate the suicide of his friend's wife. Worried about his wife's imminent delivery, Ghote nevertheless travels to the home of Mr. Dawkins, where he is unconvinced by the story of Iris Dawkins' death.

5 out of 5 stars

Interestingly developed

By
Amazon Customer
on
19-09-16

Silent Voices

By:
Ann Cleeves

Narrated by:
Charlie Hardwick

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
479

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
406

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
403

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if she’s uncovered a simple death from natural causes. But a closer inspection reveals ligature marks around the victim’s throat…Vera pulls her team together and sets them interviewing those connected to the victim, while she and colleague, Sergeant Joe Ashworth, work to find a motive.

4 out of 5 stars

Brilliant Narration!

By
Emma
on
08-07-11

Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg

By:
H.R.F. Keating

Narrated by:
Sam Dastor

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
17

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
13

Story

4 out of 5 stars
13

In a small, provincial town in the heart of India, a politician’s wife has done her husband’s career a great service, by dying under suspicious circumstances. That the corpse and the trail have been cold for fifteen years hasn’t saved Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID from being sent to investigate. But what chance does he have when his chief suspect is so powerful, when the whole district is against him, and when a holy man is fasting to the death to protest his prying?

5 out of 5 stars

Broken Eggs!

By
Adrian
on
25-01-13

Summary Justice

By:
John Fairfax

Narrated by:
Daniel Weyman

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
279

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
263

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
265

The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson, she was a law student on work experience. He was a 21-year-old, led from the dock of the Old Bailey to begin a life sentence for murder. He'd said he was innocent. She'd believed him. Sixteen years later Tess overhears a couple of hacks mocking a newcomer to the London Bar, a no-hoper with a murder conviction, running his own show from an old fishmonger's in Spitalfields.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent excellent excellent

By
Judith
on
10-03-17

Holy Island

The DCI Ryan Mysteries, Book 1

By:
LJ Ross

Narrated by:
Jonathan Keeble

Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
991

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
889

Story

4 out of 5 stars
891

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take sabbatical leave from his duties as a homicide detective. A few days before Christmas, his peace is shattered, and he is thrust back into the murky world of murder when a young woman is found dead amongst the ancient ruins of the nearby priory. When former local girl Dr. Anna Taylor arrives back on the island as a police consultant, old memories swim to the surface, making her confront her difficult past.

3 out of 5 stars

Struggled to finish this one

By
Colette
on
06-01-16

The Mitford Murders

By:
Jessica Fellowes

Narrated by:
Rachel Atkins

Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
214

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
186

Story

4 out of 5 stars
187

Lose yourself in the gripping first novel in a new series of Golden Age murder mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters. It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside.

5 out of 5 stars

Lovely, lovely, lovely!!!!

By
cdw
on
09-10-17

Summary

Inspector Singh is home - and how he wishes he wasn't. His wife nags him at breakfast and his superiors are whiling away their time by giving him his usual 'you're a disgrace to the force' lecture. Fortunately for Singh, there is no rest for the wicked when he is called out to the murder of a senior partner at an international law firm, clubbed to death at his desk. Unfortunately for Singh, there is no shortage of suspects - from the victim's fellow partners to his wife and ex-wife - or motives, as many of the lawyers have secrets they would kill to protect.

And very soon Singh finds himself heading up an investigation that rips apart the fabric of Singapore society and exposes the rotten core beneath. Perhaps coming home wasn't such a good idea, after all...?

Story

Entertaining

Inspector Singh may not have proved the most popular of detective characters, but as an overweight Sikh surviving in the Singapore police he is one of the more unusual. I have heard all three recordings now, with the engaging Jonathan Keeble juggling Sikh, Malaysian, English and other accents with aplomb. There are two other books in the series which have not yet been recorded, and I hope they will make it on to audible. Light, diverting, with a flavour of the country - in this case Singapore, though the others offer Bali and Malaysia.

More than just "O.K. lah"!

Any additional comments?

Maybe it is because I found that I could identify with many of the characters in this tale of modern day Singapore than made it appeal to me.A well written and very well narrated story made it a listening pleasure.I look forward to hearing more of the corpulent Inspector Singh!

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5 out of 5 stars

Performance

5 out of 5 stars

Story

4 out of 5 stars

John

12-01-13

great read by the narrator

What did you love best about The Singapore School of Villainy?

I always enjoy material written about Singapore especially fiction and I have read others in thi sseries.

What about Jonathan Keeble’s performance did you like?

I love this artists work, His command of the accents that are so diverse in the dialogue could not be faulted in this read.